Newsweek, February 20th, 1995
AMONG ASIAN BRIC-A-BRAC IN THE New York apartment where occult impresario Helena Blavatsky lived in the 1870s stood a stuffed baboon. Bespectacled, in wing collar and morning coat, holding a lecture on Darwin, it was her emblem of "the Folly of Science as opposed to the Wisdom of Religion," writes British critic Peter Washington in Madame Blavatsky's Baboon (480 pages. Schocken. $27.50). Blavatsky (1831-1891), a footloose daughter of minor Russo-German aristocrats, was the original celebrity guru, and the Theosophical Society she founded drew such big-ticket followers as W. B. Yeats, Thomas Ed...
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